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The Nonprofit Racket

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2025/09/23

The Nonprofit Racket by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [This is the foreword to the new book by Douglas French: When Movements Become Rackets (2025)] Dante Alighieri, in his book Inferno, places those who betray benefactors in the deepest circle of hell. If that is true, the place is likely overpopulated with the managers and executives of nonprofit organizations. In recent years, such organizations have been implicated in egregious schemes to launder money and influence for every

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Democracy Dies in Adulterated Voter Rolls

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2025/09/22

Democracy Dies in Adulterated Voter Rolls by el gato malo at Brownstone Institute We can argue about just how much democracy is even desirable in a republic where the rights of the individual are supposed to stand paramount to the whims of the demos and that most oppressive of forms of governance, “tyranny of the majority,” but I suspect just about all of us can agree on a basic issue: If we are to have democracy, counting the votes is vital and, as a subset of such, determining which votes are

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New Study Shows That There Is a Lot of DNA in the...

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2025/09/22

New Study Shows That There Is a Lot of DNA in the Pfizer/Moderna Vials by Jessica Rose at Brownstone Institute I promised a “Jess write-up” of our newest paper that was published on 06 Sep 2025 in the journal Autoimmunity after many years of preprintage, peer review, and attacks. It is entitled: “Quantification of residual plasmid DNA and SV40 promoter-enhancer sequences in Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna modRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Ontario, Canada” and it was submitted as evidence in the

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Homesteading: The Little Piggy

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2025/09/21

Homesteading: The Little Piggyby Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute Last weekend, Jill and I visited the uniquely experimental Polyface farm here in Virginia. A long-standing, successful older farm where its owner and operator, Joel Salatin, has developed regenerative farming methods grounded in the pragmatic realities of the small farm and homestead. Jill and I were lucky enough to get a private tour of the farm and to have Joel teach us about sylvan farming and pigs. Joel has a system

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The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake – It Was Just Wrong

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2025/09/20

The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake – It Was Just Wrong by David Bell at Brownstone Institute The Covid response was not an error, and it was not the result of rushing to address a crisis due to an unknown pathogen. It was a lot of people, mostly professionals in the field, systematically and collectively doing what they knew was wrong. It is helpful when this is systematically laid out, as such facts can form a basis from which to stop it being repeated. Early in 2025, some statisticians from

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Was Jimmy Kimmel Censored?

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2025/09/19

Was Jimmy Kimmel Censored? by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute Charlie Kirk was the antithesis of Jimmy Kimmel. Kirk was tremendously influential with the youth while Kimmel’s sanctimony is reserved for a dwindling audience of the blue-state elderly among coastal elites. Kirk sought good-faith debate while Kimmel relied on monologues of smears. Kirk was fundamentally decent, while Kimmel is callous and cruel. This week’s headlines reveal another difference between the men: the

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How to Protect Patients and Medical Professionals

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2025/09/19

How to Protect Patients and Medical Professionals by Brooke Miller at Brownstone Institute The Transformation of Medicine: From Healers to Healthcare Workers I had the privilege of addressing the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons this past Friday at their annual meeting and convention. I spoke on a topic that I'd never addressed publicly before, but one in which I feel quite versed through hard-won experience. During my medical career, which spans four decades, I've witnessed

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The Moral Hazard of Anesthesia

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2025/09/18

The Moral Hazard of Anesthesia by Sarah Thompson at Brownstone Institute In the history of medicine, there have been two primary means of determining whether a substance has a medicinal application: theory and observation. The use of drugs in medicine has generally followed a pattern of trial and error, where a substance comes into use until it is determined to be harmful, at which point it is quietly removed from circulation, generally because something new has been discovered or invented to take

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The Food Emancipation Proclamation

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2025/09/18

The Food Emancipation Proclamation by Joel Salatin at Brownstone Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQfpfSAmO10 The operative word of our time is disentanglement. How many people do we run into that say, I just want to disentangle. I don't want to feel dependent on the education system. So we have a tsunami of homeschooling. I don't want to be dependent on the healthcare system. So we have a tsunami of medical quacks, many of them speaking here. We all want to go to a quack

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The Pandemic of Fake Psychiatric Diagnoses

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2025/09/17

The Pandemic of Fake Psychiatric Diagnoses by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute On 12 September, UK child and adolescent psychiatrist Sami Timimi published “When mental-health diagnoses become brands, the real drivers of our psychic pain are hidden” in the Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper. In his superb article, Sami carefully explains how he arrives at his painful conclusion: You see there is a truth that we (in the mental-health business) hope no one will notice – we literally

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The Instinct to Hurt Those with Whom One Disagrees

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2025/09/17

The Instinct to Hurt Those with Whom One Disagrees by Robin Koerner at Brownstone Institute “It’s long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year, in the most hateful and despicable way possible.” -Donald Trump. Never did I expect to write an article about the moderation of political communication that began with a quote from Donald Trump. But

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The Comfortable Collapse: How America Learned to...

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2025/09/16

The Comfortable Collapse: How America Learned to Pretend Obesity Is Normal by Joseph Varon at Brownstone Institute Walk into any American airport today and pause. Look around at the travelers waiting at the gate, the families queuing for fast food, the crowds rushing past. You are looking at a country that our grandparents would not recognize. In less than three generations, the very shape of the American body has shifted so dramatically that what would once have been regarded as rare or

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5 Reasons Pfizer’s Reply to President Trump Is...

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2025/09/16

5 Reasons Pfizer’s Reply to President Trump Is Complete Rubbish by Clayton J. Baker, MD at Brownstone Institute On September 1, 2025, on Truth Social, President Trump posted a demand for transparency. Specifically, he called for public release of the data he has received from pharmaceutical companies regarding the modified-mRNA-based Covid injections, calling out Pfizer specifically. He wrote: It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many

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The Spirit of Pioneering

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2025/09/15

The Spirit of Pioneering by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker’s book,Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] Of all the chapters in Eric Sloane’s book, his fifth chapter on pioneering is the most melancholy. He reflects on the hardships of life in the 18th and 19th centuries, the strange and spectacular ways people unrooted themselves to travel for months on end to find new homes in uncharted land and make new homes for

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Germophobia Doesn’t Pay, But It Does Sell

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2025/09/15

Germophobia Doesn’t Pay, But It Does Sell by Steve Templeton at Brownstone Institute The following is an excerpt from Steve Templeton’s book,Fear of a Microbial Planet: How a Germophobic Safety Culture Makes Us Less Safe. As I discussed in the first two chapters, much of what germophobes do has little effect on their ability to avoid getting sick and might even be counterproductive. Studies of antimicrobial products have shown they don’t provide any advantage over soap and water. The

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The Spirit of Thankfulness

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2025/09/14

The Spirit of Thankfulnessby Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker’s book,Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] It’s no longer fashionable to pray before meals, especially with guests around. Don’t want to offend anyone, invoke a god someone else rejects, or otherwise be seen as old-fashioned or superstitious. I get it, and I too feel the sense that we should all just sit down and start eating. But you know what? No matter how

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Former CDC Director Believes in ‘Early Spread’

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2025/09/13

Former CDC Director Believes in ‘Early Spread’ by Bill Rice at Brownstone Institute Dr. Robert Redfield became more candid after he was CDC director. Note: this article was originally published in June 2024. In a recent interview with Chris Cuomo, former CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield made several eye-opening comments about the government’s Covid response and “vaccines.” However, what stood out to me (and has generated scant coverage) were Redfield’s views that the novel coronavirus was

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The CDC Needed a Thorough Housecleaning

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2025/09/12

The CDC Needed a Thorough Housecleaning by Joseph Varon at Brownstone Institute For 715 consecutive days — every single day — I put on full protective gear in the ICU at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center, fighting Covid-19 on the frontlines. I never took a day off, because when lives hang in the balance, doctors don’t get the luxury of excuses. We act. We fight. We serve. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was created to serve with that same urgency — to protect Americans from

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Toby Rogers’ Statement to the Permanent Subcommittee...

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2025/09/12

Toby Rogers’ Statement to the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations by Toby Rogers at Brownstone Institute Good afternoon, Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member Blumenthal, and members of the Permanent Subcommittee: On July 4, 2015, my then-partner’s son was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. I was in a Ph.D. program in Political Economy at the University of Sydney where I had access to almost all current scientific and medical journals. I wanted to better understand what was

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“Safe and Effective” Is Not Rooted in Science

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2025/09/11

“Safe and Effective” Is Not Rooted in Science by Jennifer Smith at Brownstone Institute "Toxic and Effective” Does Not Make for a Snappy Marketing Slogan Over the last 4+ years, we have heard the slogan “safe and effective” ad nauseum in relation to vaccines — repeated by health agencies, media, and pharmaceutical companies. But what does "safe" really mean? This post isn’t about fear. It’s about precision. The word “safe” is not scientific, especially when evaluating the effects

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